Published: Feb 21, 2025 - The Expense Analyst analyzes monthly expenses to ensure consistency with invoices and financial statements, and manage expenditure accuracy while tracking trends. The role also involves coordinating with cost center managers for expense-related queries and approvals, processing employee expense reports, and managing contracts and payables. Additionally, the position supports tax compliance and strategic planning through participation in tax studies, maintenance of tax records, and preparation for corporate tax filings.

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1. Expense Analyst, Green Financial Solutions, Rochester, NY
Job Summary:
- Oversee day-to-day accounting department functions, including but not limited to GL and bank account reconciliation.
- Maintain Fixed Assets system, policies, and procedures and record monthly depreciation.
- Communicate with business owners for information regarding purchase orders and invoices.
- Analyze Fixed Asset projections and prepare roll-forwards.
- Participate in strategic financial projects, including the current implementation of a new ERP and reporting system.
- Manage month and year-end close processes and activities, including the preparation or review of journal entries.
- Review & prepare schedules and support for quarterly reviews and year-end audits for auditors.
- Review monthly balance sheet and P&L flux analysis, research accounts, record journal entries, and document explanations for fluctuations.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to design and implement process efficiencies.
- Support management in completing special projects, ad-hoc reporting, analysis requests, and other tasks from the Controller and Financial Reporting group.
Skills on Resume:
- GL Management (Hard Skills)
- Fixed Assets (Hard Skills)
- Bank Reconciliation (Hard Skills)
- ERP Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Audit Support (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Hard Skills)
- Project Management (Soft Skills)
2. Expense Analyst, Horizon Analytics, Tempe, AZ
Job Summary:
- Review monthly expenses against invoices received, financial statement consistency and presentation, and flux tracking
- Review expenditures for completeness and accuracy, analyze trends
- Follow-up with cost center managers on expense questions, contract renewals, and approval processes
- Process employee expense reports and issue settlement runs
- Manage payables aging report and present weekly to management
- Contract database management
- Standardize and develop a process for onboarding new suppliers
- Enhance expense reporting for future cost savings and expense forecasting as the company grows
- Prepare expense accruals as part of the month-end close process
- 1099 maintenance and annual fillings
- Sales and use tax – participate in state sales tax study and implement changes
- Assist with the preparation of annual corporate income tax return
- Tax reporting matrix – ensure compliance across applicable states and prepare for tax planning
- Company representative to tax authorities
Skills on Resume:
- Expense Review (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cost Center Management (Soft Skills)
- Accounts Payable (Hard Skills)
- Contract Management (Hard Skills)
- Supplier Onboarding (Soft Skills)
- Tax Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Tax Reporting (Hard Skills)
3. Travel and Expense Analyst, Summit Financial Corp, Columbia, SC
Job Summary:
- First-level support for technical Concur issues.
- Solve issues with new hires in regard to access to Concur.
- Periodic review of employees accounts.
- Ownership of the credit card accounting cycle including postings through Invoicetrack of credit card supplier's documents and through the upload function.
- Periodic review of accounts of suppliers paid through credit card, avoid double payments in close contact with accounts receivable.
- Cleaning of credit card GL account.
- Review and approve payment runs impacting employee's accounts.
- Ensure employees, in particular sales representatives are paid on time.
- Avoid double payments to employees and to suppliers paid with credit cards.
- Support the REEF Global Travel and Expense program through the development and ongoing support of all reporting and analytical functions required for the department.
- Create and run reports out of the various corporate card systems, including American Express At Work, JP Morgan Chase, American Express and HSBCnet corporate card systems.
- Assist in the development and management of SOPs for all programs (card, expense, travel)
Skills on Resume:
- Technical Support (Hard Skills)
- Account Management (Hard Skills)
- Credit Card Accounting (Hard Skills)
- Payment Processing (Hard Skills)
- Expense Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Supplier Payment Management (Hard Skills)
- Report Generation (Hard Skills)
- SOP Development (Soft Skills)
4. Expense Analyst, Coastal Finance Strategies, Wilmington, DE
Job Summary:
- Review large amounts of data and provide assistance with variance analysis
- Assist with monthly close, which may include journal entry preparation and review
- Assist with monthly expense analysis and assist with variance explanations
- Review expense coding for accuracy
- Review expense items to forecast
- Participate in monthly management P&L review meetings
- Work closely with the Accounting team to ensure accurate monthly close
- Assist managers with the preparation of budgets during the annual budget process.
- Prepare budgets and forecasts
- Assist other analysts and team members in fulfilling duties
- Integrate this work with the rest of the analysis occurring within the Operations Analytics team
- Support operational analytics and reporting functions within the team on an as-needed basis
Skills on Resume:
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Journal Entry Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Expense Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Budget Preparation (Hard Skills)
- P&L Review (Hard Skills)
- Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Operational Reporting (Hard Skills)
5. Travel and Expense Analyst, Prairie Financial Group, Fargo, ND
Job Summary:
- Perform reporting, analysis and other tasks related to travel and expense.
- Process business travel expense reports utilizing the Concur Expense system.
- Ensure expenses are in compliance with company travel policy/procedures.
- Answer employee inquiries, through email and phone calls in a Customer Help Center environment.
- Performs Accounting review of all submitted expense reports for the entire bank for proper documentation and GL expense types in order to authorize them for payment processing in Concur Expense in accordance with Accounting policies.
- Investigate expense report discrepancies.
- Performs employee maintenance in the Concur Expense system or Citibank system on a regular basis as changes are needed.
- Conduct monthly closing activities to ensure proper and timely financial reporting
- Resolve Citibank issues including issues with MCCs, cards, balances, limits are hard to handle with Citibank customer service
- Create and run reports out of the SAP Concur software as requested (travel and expense systems)
- Prepare monthly internal management travel and expense reports and deliver them to various entities within the REEF organization
Skills on Resume:
- Reporting and Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Expense Report Processing (Hard Skills)
- Compliance Management (Hard Skills)
- Customer Support (Soft Skills)
- Accounting Review (Hard Skills)
- Discrepancy Investigation (Hard Skills)
- System Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
6. Travel and Expense Analyst, Peak Finance Services, Springfield, IL
Job Summary:
- Audit expense reports in Concur with a special focus on correct expense classifications and daily allowances.
- Process and clear weekly outgoing payments.
- Complete period-end activities including journal entries and reconciliation of G/L accounts.
- Correspond with employees and respond to inquiries.
- Ensure controls prescribed in the process documentation are thoroughly followed.
- Correct reported errors in the accounting system.
- Maintain the Desktop Procedures through regular reviews and updates.
- Assist in projects for the continuous improvement and standardization of processes.
- Work with local Finance colleagues to learn and document activities to be migrated to the Budapest SSC
- Uses office automated systems to input data, generate reports, conduct specialized research projects and respond to inquiries.
- Reconcile difficult accounts.
- Maintain a complete and systematic set of transactions in a specific phase of accounting
Skills on Resume:
- Expense Report Auditing (Hard Skills)
- Payment Processing (Hard Skills)
- Period-End Activities (Hard Skills)
- Employee Correspondence (Soft Skills)
- Process Control (Hard Skills)
- Error Correction (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Account Reconciliation (Hard Skills)
7. Senior Fund Expense Analyst, River City Finance, Jefferson City, MO
Job Summary:
- Allocate and authorize payment of mutual fund-billable invoices in APS (Accounts Payable System).
- Maintain vendor data, expense accounts, contracts, wire instructions and fee schedules within APS to ensure proper allocation and payment from funds.
- Reconcile daily management fees, 12b-1 fees, and expense reimbursements.
- Monitor and research daily expenses and net asset value changes.
- Prepare fund expense budgets to determine accurate accruals and adjustments.
- Review mutual funds for contractual fee changes and other impacting events.
- Review shareholder reports for appropriateness of disclosures and accuracy of reported expenses in accordance with GAAP and SEC regulations.
- Coordinate with other groups in department to ensure expense reporting accuracy and respond to expense-related inquiries.
- Prepare quarterly materials for the Board of Trustees.
- Assist in the preparation of Prospectus updates.
- Prepare pro forma analysis for product events and contractual fee changes.
- Participate in risk assessments, operational reviews and due diligence visits.
- Create and periodically update procedures for daily, monthly, quarterly, and annual deliverables.
- Analyze year-over-year expense fluctuations.
- Participate in training opportunities to increase industry expertise.
- Maintain a focus on personal development under the guidance of the team’s supervisors/managers.
Skills on Resume:
- Invoice Allocation (Hard Skills)
- Vendor Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Fee Reconciliation (Hard Skills)
- Expense Research (Hard Skills)
- Budget Preparation (Hard Skills)
- Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Department Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)
8. Expense Analyst, Blue Sky Economic Advisors, Carson City, NV
Job Summary:
- Provide general ledger support for Travel and Expense reconciliations
- Supervise General Ledger activities (Accruals, Adjustments among others)
- Ensure all reconciliations are processed in a timely basis
- and adhering to all corporate standards and guidelines.
- Timely follow-up on open items.
- Review and approve the balance sheet reconciliation prepared by the analyst
- Maintain an accurate and current accounting ledger that reflects the country's transactional reality through timely posting of all required items.
- Ensure that all transactions are correctly reflected in the ledger on a country basis.
- Ensure accurate and timely period reporting that complies with Corporate and country requirements.
- Ensure activities comply with internal controls, SOX, and corporate policies and procedures.
- Stay abreast for new opportunities to streamline and render service delivery more efficiently, and participate in special projects if possible
- Provide proper market support.
- Review and sign off the balance sheet reconciliations.
Skills on Resume:
- GL Support (Hard Skills)
- Supervision (Soft Skills)
- Reconciliation Management (Hard Skills)
- Transaction Posting (Hard Skills)
- Period Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Internal Controls (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Market Support (Soft Skills)
9. Expense Analyst, Cedar Financial Management, Boise, ID
Job Summary:
- Make quarter-end expense closing process through timely submission of actual, forecasts and required analyses.
- Verify all related expenses have been captured for the quarter within General Ledger.
- Prepare and run the expense allocation process and required data loads.
- Prepare all appropriate schedules and annual exhibits.
- Maintain existing MRAS expense process documentation.
- Prepare the quarterly analysis of expense versus budget for all MRAS and MR Group reporting requirements.
- Preparing the schedules as well as analyzing, investigating and documenting variances that exceed the acceptable limits.
- Reviewing the Budget Conformance Reports, running queries in SAP/Comshare and/or communicating with assigned budgetary personnel.
- Support the preparation, analysis and reporting of the annual MRAS Expense and Staff Budgets.
- Work with all MRAS COO and Service Leaders (or designees) to provide assistance and guidance.
- Analyze allocation changes for validation of material variance with Expense & Budget - Sr Analyst and MRAS COO.
- Support expense analyses and special projects to meet Munich Re and MRAS requirements.
- Provide guidance and assistance to individuals of Munich Re America Service regarding expenses, processes and procedures.
- Coordinate communications with MRAS COO.
Skills on Resume:
- Expense Closing (Hard Skills)
- General Ledger Verification (Hard Skills)
- Expense Allocation (Hard Skills)
- Documentation Maintenance (Hard Skills)
- Variance Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Budget Conformance (Hard Skills)
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Department Coordination (Soft Skills)
10. Client Expense Analyst, Valley Fiscal Solutions, Salem, OR
Job Summary:
- Prepare a monthly summary of Client/Case reporting of revenues (on an accrual basis).
- Analyze financial data for revenue projects and research and resolve to root cause
- Evaluate and understand customer needs and requirements in order to present with best products.
- Perform daily billing and collection activities.
- Interact with auditors during the year-end audit
- Collaborate with Managers to establish goals and implement plans
- Enhance current skill sets and sales results.
- Stay current with database information and reporting.
- Analyze the monthly results, explaining variances from the budget.
- Prepare Business Improvement Plans and ongoing monitoring to achieve targets.
Skills on Resume:
- Revenue Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Financial Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Customer Relationship Management (Soft Skills)
- Billing & Collections (Hard Skills)
- Audit Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Goal Setting (Soft Skills)
- Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Business Improvement (Soft Skills)
11. Expense Analyst, Alpine Budget Analysis, Cheyenne, WY
Job Summary:
- Responsible for detailed expense planning, reporting, and analysis for the Operations organization
- Work with Operations leaders and the Finance department to establish a budget plan based on historical data, current trends, and business strategy
- Have regular monthly check-ins with Operations executives to track expenses against the budget plan.
- Monitor performance indicators, highlight trends, and analyze causes of unexpected variances.
- Be a thinking partner for business leaders in coming up with options or recommendations for managing expenses, thinking through downstream impacts of the different options on the overall business
- Provide analytical support to Operations organization helping drive strategic decision-making.
- Analysis of business opportunities, the effectiveness of programs, and cost/benefit analysis
- Communicate with department leaders to provide insight into the impact of business trends on current and future expenses
- Focus on continuous process improvement with a customer-centric focus
- Be the point person for all ad hoc analysis related to Operations expenses during the year, as a liaison between the Operations and Finance departments
- Regularly interact with VP, and C-level executives on long-term strategic recommendations, forecasting, complex analysis, and challenging situations
- Build and maintain key working relationships across multiple areas of the organization
- Implement and leverage business intelligence tools and dashboard reports
Skills on Resume:
- Expense Planning (Hard Skills)
- Budgeting (Hard Skills)
- Performance Monitoring (Hard Skills)
- Business Strategy (Soft Skills)
- Analytical Support (Hard Skills)
- Cost/Benefit Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Process Improvement (Soft Skills)
- Executive Communication (Soft Skills)